Bakarlari is a collective of performers and composers dedicated to contemporary and new solo music founded in 2018 by Émilie Fortin, who also serves as the artistic director.

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The Burning BRASs Band is a feminist brass and percussion band based in Montreal and in operation since the summer of 2022. Composed exclusively of women and gender diverse people, this artistic project's mission is to increase the place of women, trans, non-binary and queer people in the music scene.

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Freesound is a performance collective operating in Toronto, Canada. We are dedicated to artistic innovation, exploring the creation of new works, non-traditional approaches to concert formats, and more, all at the highest caliber of artistic expression.

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ék is an interdisciplinary project by the sound and movement, trumpet and trombone duo composed of Montréal-based brass players Émilie Fortin and Kalun Leung. The project builds on a new mime-sound vocabulary that combines wordless storytelling performed by one instrumentalist while the other instrumentalist creates “Foley” sound effects using only their instrument (either trumpet or trombone).

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The Ratchet Orchestra seeks to creatively and rigorously explore the relationships and tensions between instinctive and intellectual approaches to music-making. The Ratchet Orchestra is a creative cauldron of Montréal's musical avant garde with a personnel that includes many of Montréal’s most imaginative and engaging musicians.

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Ensemble SuperMusique (ESM) features key performer-composers from Montréal’s long-standing and renowned scene of musique actuelle, contemporary music-making that synthesizes composition and improvisation as well as acoustic and electronic instrumentation.

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